20 April (Part 1) - History repeating itself?
I
am in almost total ignorance of the GLA elections and they are only two weeks away.
There have been a couple of leaflets from the Conservative and Labour contenders
for Mayor through the letterbox but nothing from any other party. Nothing about any prospective GLA
member either. If it wasn’t for the fact I watch local political developments
fairly closely I would not know that Bexley Councillor Gareth Bacon is in the running for the GLA. Anyone who
votes for a candidate whose only interest in politics is making money out of it needs their head testing.
After reading
yesterday’s
News Shopper on line my opinion of Zac Goldsmith took
a further dive, I didn’t think that was possible after I heard him say more than
once on the radio that he plans to increase taxes on motorists. What is the point
of a Conservative who believes that more taxation is the answer to everything?
However if the News Shopper is to be believed Zac Goldsmith appears to have gone
right off his head. He says that a million pounds should be given to Sidcup for
improving the shop fronts, put in a few trees and reducing the number of empty
shop premises.
Wasn’t
that done in 2014? Bexley Council has bragged at public meetings that
spending £1·8 million in Sidcup and disrupting the high street from January to November miraculously improved trade
and that the number of empty shops plummeted. Who can you believe?
If Zac Goldsmith thinks another million needs to be sent on Sidcup, does that mean that Bexley Council
has lied about the success of the 2014 regeneration? And why does all this money
have to be spent in the south again? Abbey Wood got a measly £300,000 and the
council
stole back a third of it in fees.